Offer BNL Update

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA
22 July 2005

 Public exchange offer of ordinary shares of BANCA NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO S.p.A.


              Announcement of the closing of the acceptance period


BBVA announces that, at the closing of the acceptance period of the public
exchange offer launched over the ordinary shares of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
S.p.A (BNL) (hereinafter the 'Offer'), according to the notice made to Borsa de
Italia by BNP Paribas Securities Services, 22.525.491 shares have accepted the
Offer, representing 0,848% of the ordinary share capital of BNL.


Such shares, together with the ones previously owned by BBVA, do not represent a
percentage greater than 50% of the ordinary share capital of BNL; consequently
the Condition Precedent provided for in paragraph D.2.1. of the Prospectus has
not been fulfilled, and therefore the Offer has not been perfected.


As provided in the Prospectus, the shares which have accepted the Offer will be
put at the disposal of the title owners on the second market day following the
present Announcement of the Closing of the Acceptance Period.


Excluded markets

The Offer is exclusively promoted on the Italian market, the sole regulated
market on which the Shares are negotiated. The Offer is not being made and will
not be made in or into the United States and in any other State in which such
distribution is subject to restrictions or limitations pursuant to laws in force
in such states (the 'Excluded States'). Excluded States are without limitations
United States of America, Japan, Canada and Australia. This document, and any
and all materials related to the Offer, that the Issuer or the Offeror and any
other person interested in the Offer may issue, should not be sent or otherwise
distributed in or into the United States and in the Excluded States, whether by
use of the United States of the Excluded States mail or by any means or
instrumentality of United States or of the Excluded States interstate or foreign
commerce (including, but without limitation, the mail, facsimile transmission,
telex, telephone and the Internet) or any facility of a United States national
securities exchange or Excluded States, and the Offer cannot be accepted by any
such use, means or instrumentality, in or from within the United States or
Excluded States. Accordingly, copies of this document, the Offer Document and
any related materials are not being, and must not be, sent or otherwise
distributed in or into or from the United States and Excluded States or, in
their capacities as such, to custodians, trustees or nominees holding BNL Shares
for United States and Excluded States, and persons receiving any such documents
(including custodians, nominees and trustees) must not distribute or send them
in, into or from the United States and Excluded States. Any purported acceptance
of the Offer resulting directly or indirectly from a violation of these
restrictions will be invalid. No BNL Shares are being solicited from a resident
of the United States and Excluded States and, if sent in response by a resident
of the United States and Excluded States, will not be accepted.

This document is not an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy,
securities in the United States and Excluded States. The BBVA Shares being
offered in exchange for BNL shares have not been and will not be registered
under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the 'US Securities Act') or
under the securities laws of any state of the United States and Excluded States,
and are offered solely outside the United States and Excluded States in offshore
transactions in compliance with Regulation S under the US Securities Act.
Consequently, no BBVA Shares delivered in exchange for BNL Shares pursuant to
the Offer may be offered, sold or delivered directly or indirectly in the United
States and Excluded States, except pursuant to an exemption from registration.

                                                           Madrid, July 22, 2005


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